On Monday, October 31, 2011 07:46:59 AM William Warren wrote:
Like I said before It it too bad RH is doing what they are doing. It is going to mean the death of RHEL rebuilds...look at what is happening to Centos. Per Johnny's statement they can't truly maintain 100% binary compatibility. It is not the Centos team's fault although they are going to be the biggest casualty.
If absolute 100% binary compatibility is not required, but admin-level compatibility and source-level compatibility with upstream EL is, Scientific Linux is covering that niche, and has their 6.1 out.
And that's not a criticism of CentOS, either, as the binary compatibility testing CentOS is doing has its purposes. Again, glad there is CR out there.
The rebuilding per se isn't the issue; testing against the upstream binaries for compatibility without running afoul of the upstream AUP seems to be the problem.
I have a couple of servers on Ubuntu LTS; after experiencing a few issues I'd say go Debian stable rather than Ubuntu LTS, from experience, if you're going to go that route.